Wentzingerhaus Museum of City History

Among the topics dealt with are the city's founding by the House of Zähringen, monasteries and foundations, and crafts and coinage. As a preparation for a tour of the town, take a look at the model showing Freiburg in about 1600 with its medieval walls and city gates and a further model showing the town within its baroque star-shaped moated fortification in about 1700. In the salon there is a model of the cathedral construction site.